Flying over no man’s land

Sunday 18 March '07

Employees of the Nuclear Corporation will survey and monitor threatened birds in the exclusion zones of nuclear plants.

Rose through ranks at Hyundai, was planning holiday in Mauritius

Saturday 18 November '06

A middle-aged Sikh lady answers the door to Sandeep Bhonsle’s second floor apartment in Virar.

Retired lawyer and company secretary, aspired to do a PhD

Sunday 29 October '06

At 79, Mahendra Motilal Mehta felt he had a lot to explore and learn. After working as a legal executive and company secretary for over four decades...

82. Tushit Shah, 44

Sunday 8 October '06

Institutional equity dealer, his wife says he gave her strength to move on, she wants to help other 7/11 families

Bank executive, was doing part-time MBA to advance career

Tuesday 3 October '06

Once, as a schoolboy, he pestered his mother for money to buy a pair of parakeets, only to set them free. On another occasion, he spent weeks nursing an injured squirrel.

A policeman, he was to join duty at his new post in Malad in a few days

Saturday 23 September '06

Suresh Shenpadu Pawar was a no-nonsense policeman, a committed worker, and a man of few words. It took long for even those close to him to not mistake his brusque manner for harshness.

Railwayman, he planned to settle down in Bangalore after retirement in 7 years

Tuesday 19 September '06

There is a sense of calm in the Gundappa residence, a small single-bedroom flat on the busy Ambadi Road in Vasai...

Rly engineer, he worked for chawl-dwellers’ dream of moving to flats

Sunday 20 August '06

Namdeo Chintaman Bhagat had a dream that almost every Mumbaiite would relate to — that of having a flat of his own.

Banker from 9 to 5, a teacher in the evening

Wednesday 2 August '06

Joseph Robert Noronha was a banker with his heart in the classroom. That is where a love for learning would take this post-graduate in science, business administration and law, day after day for over 25 years

HSBC Securities dealer; son put Fanaa tune on his cell week before blast

Saturday 22 July '06

Bharti Merchant insists she has never been an outdoors person. ‘‘Sabzi bhaaji leke aana bas,’’ says the 44-year-old woman sitting on a floor mat in her Kandivli home in a plain lilac sari...

More scars, and a question, why?

Friday 14 July '06

We heard of an unidentified patient on bed no 32. Then the staff said it was body number 32, not bed

As Mumbai fights back, the living count the dead

Thursday 13 July '06

Things were finally settling down at the casualty ward of Sion hospital. Occasionally, an injured would be shifted, some volunteers were still offering khichdi to those who had settled down on the dull pink stone benches for the night.

‘I thought a fan had fallen but suddenly the roof split open’

Wednesday 12 July '06

“Can you take out the cellphone from my pocket? I want to talk to my wife,” Mahesh Ponda asked a doctor at Sion Hospital. The doctor fished out the blood-soaked cellphone from his right pocket and asked for the number.

His liver is still bleeding, bullets to be tackled later

Sunday 23 April '06

Almost 12 hours after Pramod Mahajan was operated upon for bullet injuries in his lower chest and abdomen, Army doctors arrived at Mahim’s P D Hinduja Hospital on Saturday evening to discuss his health with the team of doctors at the hospital.